PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXXIX, Issue 12040, 9 August 1902, Page 6

PERSONAL NOTES FROM LONDON.

- . ' f>BOM / OtTS:OIVS-..COEKESroXDEXT.3 ,■-•■,,• Loxiwsy June 27. '■■:".\< ■'■'/• Mas. Thoctbeck (Napier) has been travelling about for some months, J and s has just returned from Paris, where she spent six V;. enjoyable weeks. ' " "--' ■ .''The Hon. A. J. Cadraan and Miss Cadman arrived in England this week. They are, I hear, in good health, and Mr. Cad-' . man seems sanguine in regard '- to his saineral projects. "''..' ,;..--■...:,, .', ■'■'-■■'■> The Rev. Robert Wood, minister of the Presbyterian Church in the; Wellington province; and- formerly for a number of vears in the Otago province,-is- in England on a short visit after an absence of 25 years in the colony.

"■.!\V.■'■!■".■!';■ , ■ '■' . -- ■-.;•!■ - ■-■'.-■• ■- ■ Mr. * Ralph Black (Auckland), who served 5n South Africa for two/ years with the 'Queensland Contingent, is on a short visit :ao England. He expects to leave for Johannesburg on July 39, and will take up *. his profession-there as metallurgist.

Miss Colbeck, who came from New Zealand by the s.s. Papanui. and had a very pleasant voyage, has, since hei arrival, Seen staying for i some I- time with her ! hfottier; Dr. Colb<ick. : She has also been tan Yorkshire for a short time, staying with relatives. - ■■■■"'" - ;

Mr. E. Richardson, ol*; Povertv Bay, 'who served in Scots Mounted i Railway Guards and the Canadian Scouts in South '.Africa, is in London, having had a free ; passage, granted to him. He ; tells me rhe ' intends going. back to South Africa, as 'lie thinks somewhat highly of'the Trans- :;■.:■...■■■■■ ■■ .▼aal. . ". ~ " ,• .._

The New Zealand Shipping Company's •steamer -Whakatane .'left Plymouth last Saturday, outward bound for New Zealand, via the Cape and Hobart. ' Her three saloon passengers were: - Mr. P. Muir, Mr. A. . feoutledge, and Mr. A. H. Thompson. In 4he' third-class there were nearly 100 passengers. . ■

• Mr. Swaiason, late of Auckland, is at .present <• in • London, •-'- and , is now going in 3'or architecture. - This week he .'was one of«three candidates selected for the position of Manchester city-architect, though ie neither knew nor hud Written: to -any /single member of thu' corporation. h The ■position was given to one who had 1 made ■a. specialty, of municipal architecture.

- Professor Arthur Denby, D.Sc, of Canterbury College, has, with Mrs. Denby and their family, been in England for the past •six months, three of which were spent in the neighbourhood of Manchester, where the professor tells me he was engaged'for tome time in original research on material <that he brought .with hfan from New Zea:land; he has been working in the Zoo- : logical Laboratory ,of the Owen's-. College, of which*he-is an old student. • -■ ■ - ■•. - . y-G:- ■:,--' ' ■'. '

- "Lord 23anfurly's present of a collection of rare : sea, birds from the -Southern Pacific to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington should prove an interesting addition to the great store' already in the Museum," remarks a London pupsr, and it is added: "No other Gover- - i'norjof the Antipodean colony has travelled -:«> extensively •as Lord Ranfurly. and the '"birds he has now "sent Home were" got to- ; . gether during his voyage last year among i : . . -the out islands—those insular appanages ' of. New Zealand that stand away to the ■south like sentinels facing the darkness of i the Antarctic regions. " The Governor's-I term at Wellington is now on the point of j expiry." . . An interview with Mr. Herbert Mayne | Hmeeton, the president of the. Auckland , Grocers' Association, is published in the London organ.of.that trade. Mr. Smeetan _. 'contends that the effect*.of the New Zealand labour legislation is to drive men and masters into opposite camps; Speaking of the prospects out in-New Zealand for" assistants, Mr. Smeeton said it was not _ easy to get thoroughly trained men; but ', ■ grocers would .nit engage men in England. > They must go out "on their own," and assistants should be prepared to accept ;;.. the first employment available, and not be particular as to the kind. of work they did. Men willing to work, active arid in- ■' , , dustrious, would enjoy-.a; moderate d eiee of prosperity in New Zealand, and it was '.i delightful r climate. . , ■

Mr. A. Bell came from Auckland,, by : -_ ."•••.. way of Suva., Honolulu; and Victoria, to •Vancouver, having, he ■ tells <me, a fairly ; good, though ; rather protracted voyage, ' arriving there two days late. ~ ./Mr. Bell 'spent ' two days in, Vancouver, and then ; left by the i Canadian Pacific "■ railway, going as far as Banff, where he staved for a while, and then proceeded" to Winnipeg, travelling;from there to .Toronto.,, He alsovisited Buffalo, Niagara," New York, Montreal,, and Quebec, staying a short time in ; ■ each place, finally arriving at* Liverpool /. f Jrom the last-named place by the Beaver •line, alter . a good -1 passage. • - He ■ intends visiting places of interest in the United | Kingdom, and also, a portion of the European Continent, before leaving this country finally; according to present plans Mr. Bell expects to be back in New ' Zealand, -by he middle of October, ■ ■ ' Mr. and Mrs.-Edward Shillington (Auckland) arrived in London*a week or so ago,- = 'havin.-t travelled from Australia to Til- ... ■ "bury Docks by the White Star liner" Suevic, \ : by way of the ! Cape. While at Sydney : and .Melbourne, Mr. Shillington visited' the .public - libraries _in .', each place, and 'was* disappointed that it ; .was not possible to 'land at the Cape, as he had counted' upon . un examination of the interesting Grey collection'of'Maori- manuscripts * in" the Public Library / there. Since their arrival in London, Mr. Shillington has been busily , engaged in visiting and inspecting several ' library institution';,:hoping, to pick up ideas that might prove valuable ; on': his return to Auckland. ' He ! has interviewed the 'librarians of the British Museum Library,] the Record Office, and,'sundry pother; in- r stitutions, and he is now about; to, leave for Oxford' to see the famous Bodleian : 'Libraiyithere, as well as" the Free Public \ "Library. Then he j purposes going: to Man- ,■-'.. • chester, Birmingham, Liverpool, Glasgow,; '- and Edinburgh, with t the same object in View, and alter seeing all that is to be seen in-those places, - Belfast will be his next objective, where Ihe says there is a fine library run on lines similar to the Free Public Library in Auckland.

■ Callers at the "Agency-General this week liave included: Mr. Richard H. ' Hooper, If r;j Wellington; • Mrs. Bennett and; Miss •Anderson, of Auckland; Mr. Alfred M. de" Costa, of • Wellington; Mrs. "Alien" Baker: Mr. Alfred Brake, of Wellington; Mrs. T. 0. Williams, the Misses H. and y U. Williams, of Wellington ; Miss Bramwell, of Auckland Mr. Percy Spencer and 'Mr. A. Spencer, of Auckland; Mr. and-Mrs. F. Magill, of Napier; Mr. J. H. Lou'glinan, of Napier; Professor R. ; Wallace: Mr. C. R. Beattie, Wellington; Mr. and Mrs. F. Dyer, of Wellington; Mr. H. Fisher, of 'Napier ; Mr. J. P. Leightou, of Hawke's Bay; Mr.' J. Taylor ,and Mr. J. Taylor, jun,.,of Papanui; Mr. J. Martin," of Wellington; Mr. and Mis. J. P. Firth, of ■ Wellington;' Mr. H. H. Bridge, of Hawke's Bay; Mr. L.H. Ashe, 'of Wellington; Mr. G. Aldridge, of Auckland; Mr. T. A. Perry, Wellington; Mr. F. Peacock, Mrs. Peacock, and Miss Pea- -_ cock, Auckland;: Mr. B. A. Highnett, ' New Plymouth: Mr. and Mrs. J. Hawthorn, Wellington: Mrs. H. Storie, Auckland Mr. and Mrs. Niblock, Auckland Mrs.' and. Miss Whelan, Wellington; Mr. J. A. Miller (Thames); Mrs. and Miss Gow, Napier; Miss M. Clifford Cooper, . Auckland; Mrs. F. W. King, Auckland; Mr- J. E. Rei, Wellington; Mr. A. J. Ladaian and Miss Cadman; . Miss •F. M. ■ Hewin, . Auckland Captain E. Coppen, Wellington; Mr. W. J. Riddell, Napier; M James Draper, Auckland; Mrs. B. Douglas, Wellington; Mr. J. F. Firth, ■ New Plymouth. .. . * •

Last week. I sent you the names of a "'* number of New Zealanclers whom, I, ; had seen at the annual ' conversazione of; the Royal Colonial Institute, held on the night; previous to the departure of the iSan Francisco wail, but of course it ;,wa*S;impossible N. get together a complete list in so short ; . f a time. To, the names I then sent- I am >.}, *■ * , „ I, , . . .-i "- >

now able, . through the courtesy of the secretary of the institute, to add the ? following:—Mr. • and- Mrs. R. L. Antrobus, Mrs. AshbV and' Miss Ashby, Mr. and Mrs. Acton Adams, Mr. R, B. Brett, the Bishop S of "; Melanesia :-and:: Mrs. /Wilson, Mr. F. W. Bunting, Miss Batehelor, Mrs. Elias Benjamin; Mrs. % Co]quhbunv(Dunedin), •;Mr. •" Gordon i Cunninghanr, Miss ;B. ; Cunningham *.; (Ghristchurch), /-/ Mr. / George Cowie/ Mr. * G. P. ; Cowie, and Miss Cowie, Miss Cargill, Captain Crutchley, R.N.R., Miss Douglas, Miss Helen Douglas, Miss Margaret Douglas, Mr. W. F, Edwards, Mr.. W. T. -Gobdsir, Mr. and Mrs.- R. iGalloway, Miss s L.>•-< Galloway, / Mr. •■■? and Mrs. Seymour T;horne" George }. and ! : the I Misses Thome George. Mr. D. J. Good- ! sir, j Mr. G. Goodsir. '; Major; Nelson, George and ; Mrs, Nelson;. George. ; Mr. and Mrs. Wolf Harris and*" Mis>s Harris. Miss Margaret Hav, Miss' Hay, Dr. Hocken ; and Mrs. ' Hocken. Mr. "and Mrs. Hampton ; Hall, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Inglis, Miss' Isaacs, Mr. Guy, Johnston, Mr. and Mrs. W. Kennaway," Mr. and Mrs. S. Lowe, Miss : Lambert", Mr. : : M. ,M. : Louisson, i' Mr. and Mrs. Manson, Miss Mills,. Miss Macdonald, Mrs. Angus Macdonald. Miss Marshall, Mr. ;G. A. i Mitchell, I Mr. / and Mrs.' W. - A. Mercer, Mr. L. A. Nathan, Mrs. A. M. / Nathan, Mr. N. ;A. I Nathan, Mr. Osborne, -the Hon. R. Oliver and Mrs. Oliver, Sir ;Westby/Perceval and •;.' Miss Perceval, Mrs. Louis Pharazyn, Miss Parker, Miss Parkinson, Dr. T. W. Parkinson, Mr. :W. T. Ritchie,: Miss G. • M.: Russell, " Miss E. B. Russell, Mrs. "James Russell, Mr. James Russell, Mrs. Heaton Rhodes, : Mrs. Seymour and Miss Seymour, Miss Ethel Spence, i: Miss Effie Spence, Mrs. E. J. Spence, Mr. A. J. Spence/ Miss C. Smith, Mrs. Cunningham Smith, * Lady Samuel, Miss Sutton. Miss Eva Seymour, Miss N. Seymour, Mr. R. H. Thompson, Mr. R. Thompson. : Miss Winepress. Miss Williams, Dr. R. N. Watson. Mrs. Willes, Miss Willes/ Miss Dorothv-Willes/ Mr. P. G. Weddell, Mr. Leonard ; Weltead, Mrs. Lyall Wilson, i Miss Lyall Wilson,* Lady Yogel, Miss Vogel. and Mr. J. Yogel, and i Mr. and Mrs. C.R. 1 Valentine. '